The important part is that new shelf stackers, taxi drivers, poo cleaners, and factory workers are born every day. Those jobs are typically a *starting point* on the road to a fulfilling job. You work as a stocker while you're in school. You take a second job delivering pizzas to get yourself out of debt early so that you no longer have to worry about "that burrito you had 12 years ago."
Minimum wage jobs are never meant to be permanent. And, yet, like clockwork, thousands of school kids turn 16 and are able to take these jobs.
So, someone has Kazaa installed on her computer, never uses it, deletes it, is accused of copyright infringement, and refuses to pay it. So she's stealing?
People like you are the reason that the *AA can get away with just demanding money from people. Hell of a lot easier for them than, you know, doing their jobs.
And, typically, as soon as I go to check out the Wiki link in the article, it's been vandalized with a huge NSFW image.
Why wouldn't it surprise me to find out that it came from someone following this link.
Thankfully, by the time I started looking for the revert key (I've done very little Wiki editing, still new to the whole game), someone else had come along to fix it.
True enough, but need we remember the NetZero experiment? I'm not sure that free-as-in-tv internet will work, as customers won't deal with the lost desktop space.
What I can't understand is why these facilities have to come at the expense of printed books.
What about the schools who forget completely about books?
For the longest time (until the most recent renovation 3 or so years ago), my university's library was slowly sinking into the ground because the architects didn't take into account the weight of books when designing the library.
Just as an interesting aside that your comment reminded me of, I was watching Real TV, or at least a similar show, basically video clips of crazy stuff happening. Anyways, there's one of a teenage ice hockey game going on where a fight breaks out. Big brawl, involving a number of players from both sides. One kid out there thinks that the fighting is stupid and a waste of time, so to protest and stop the fight, he takes his shirt off, and drops his pants, while skating around the rink.
I don't see the problem. If they are testing the same board as is being mass produced, then the tests are legitimate. It would be a different matter altogether if they were overclocking the boards they sent to the media and not the ones that were being sold.
ASUS has chosen to optimize performance on their board to get an edge on the competition. This is not unfair, as any other producer has the capability of doing the same.
To be honest, it's surprising to me that they don't have a "standard" model, and a "supercharged" model with the 2 MhZ overclock. Seems to me that they could wrench out an extra $10-20 out of retail buyers.
The 4 way red is an interesting idea...though around here you'd have increasing hospital bills as blood pressures boil over waiting for *nobody* LOL
The 4-way red isn't something that lasts a significantly irritating amount of time. Typically 1-5 seconds.
There again, someone mentioned a city that has 4-way reds that allow pedestrians to cross an intersection diagonally. Not sure if it was here or someone else.
...the income of a person who's biggest financial worry is whether they will be able to send all of their kids to Ivy League schools if they don't get scholarships.
Mod this down if you want, but just a clarification post:
That sounds more like something that would happen in the arcade, rather than with a home system.
Just keep pumping in those quarters!
Then again, I once blew out the computer so bad with cheat-code "fire" in NBA Jam that my SNES locked up. The score was something like 212-36, with seconds remaining in the 4th.
So, if I want to harass my competitors, I can release spyware with their ads on it or pay for spyware distribution in their name? This would subject them to needless prosecution and distraction?
The transmitters can easily be traced. It is much harder to trace the source of the ads themselves. For civil suits, the "preponderance of evidence" might be a pretty weak standard because there is not much to go on to discredit the prosecution. Of course IANAL...
I would imagine that you would run into huge issues with copyright infringement, "truth in advertising," and so much more.
Exactly. That most parents ignore the ratings doesn't correlate to most parents divorcing themselves from being involved in choosing what their children play. Believe it or not, a little violence or even a little sex is not going to fuck a kid up and most parents know this.
The issue really isn't how fscked up a little kid is going to get. The issue is that the parents of the kids that do get fsked up, that think every game on the shelf or with a TV commercial is appropriate for their little Johnnie to play, and then move to sue the video game maker because they couldn't be bothered to do a scintilla of research into their child's entertainment.
Consumer protection doesn't equal the right to be brain dead, as much as the commercials want you to be.
How many games are sold strictly on the strength of a SAG member's likeness being in it? I can't think of a title (unless we count John Madden, et. al.).
And the complexity of the "pick up and play" games continues to get bigger and bigger. About the only ones that seem to have found the perfect balance are the sports games (American Football in particular), and yet as the years go by, they add the off-season, importing players from the college versions of the game of the same brand, off-field incidents, dynasty modes. And yet, a player can ignore all that, hit "quick play" and have a game set up in seconds.
Racing games add fine tuning to the vehicles and legacy modes, and yet still one can pick up the "quick race."
There are more examples. The GTA series is another great example, IMHO.
It sounds like a cost-benefit comparison. The total of lawsuits that the card holders will file for exposing them to fraudulant use must be less than the $400M being reported here (or whatever the splits may be across the card networks).
Relying on the contents of someone's sent folder has got to drastically reduce the number of people for the virus to spread to.
How many causal users, who would fall for all the dupes that so many have already metioned, do you think actually clear out the sent items folder of OE on a anywhere near regular basis?
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The important part is that new shelf stackers, taxi drivers, poo cleaners, and factory workers are born every day. Those jobs are typically a *starting point* on the road to a fulfilling job. You work as a stocker while you're in school. You take a second job delivering pizzas to get yourself out of debt early so that you no longer have to worry about "that burrito you had 12 years ago."
Minimum wage jobs are never meant to be permanent. And, yet, like clockwork, thousands of school kids turn 16 and are able to take these jobs.
So, someone has Kazaa installed on her computer, never uses it, deletes it, is accused of copyright infringement, and refuses to pay it. So she's stealing?
People like you are the reason that the *AA can get away with just demanding money from people. Hell of a lot easier for them than, you know, doing their jobs.
1,500,000 * $40 = $60,000,000 - $4,000,000 = $56,000,000
8,000,000 * $40 = $320,000,000 - $20,000,000 = $300,000,000
Looks even worse when you de-flaw your calculation (claim was based on profit, not on copies sold).
And, typically, as soon as I go to check out the Wiki link in the article, it's been vandalized with a huge NSFW image. Why wouldn't it surprise me to find out that it came from someone following this link. Thankfully, by the time I started looking for the revert key (I've done very little Wiki editing, still new to the whole game), someone else had come along to fix it.
True enough, but need we remember the NetZero experiment? I'm not sure that free-as-in-tv internet will work, as customers won't deal with the lost desktop space.
What I can't understand is why these facilities have to come at the expense of printed books.
What about the schools who forget completely about books?
For the longest time (until the most recent renovation 3 or so years ago), my university's library was slowly sinking into the ground because the architects didn't take into account the weight of books when designing the library.
Just as an interesting aside that your comment reminded me of, I was watching Real TV, or at least a similar show, basically video clips of crazy stuff happening. Anyways, there's one of a teenage ice hockey game going on where a fight breaks out. Big brawl, involving a number of players from both sides. One kid out there thinks that the fighting is stupid and a waste of time, so to protest and stop the fight, he takes his shirt off, and drops his pants, while skating around the rink.
I think I saw that one too...
I don't see the problem. If they are testing the same board as is being mass produced, then the tests are legitimate. It would be a different matter altogether if they were overclocking the boards they sent to the media and not the ones that were being sold.
ASUS has chosen to optimize performance on their board to get an edge on the competition. This is not unfair, as any other producer has the capability of doing the same.
To be honest, it's surprising to me that they don't have a "standard" model, and a "supercharged" model with the 2 MhZ overclock. Seems to me that they could wrench out an extra $10-20 out of retail buyers.
The 4 way red is an interesting idea...though around here you'd have increasing hospital bills as blood pressures boil over waiting for *nobody* LOL
The 4-way red isn't something that lasts a significantly irritating amount of time. Typically 1-5 seconds.
There again, someone mentioned a city that has 4-way reds that allow pedestrians to cross an intersection diagonally. Not sure if it was here or someone else.
We allow Mexicans to come into this country in lieu of robotic research. Japan has a much tighter immigration policy.
More accurately, we allow unions to keep firms from going to a greater amount of automation so that factory workers never have to ever another trade.
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...the income of a person who's biggest financial worry is whether they will be able to send all of their kids to Ivy League schools if they don't get scholarships.
Mod this down if you want, but just a clarification post:
Ivy League schools don't offer merit-based scholarships, only work study and need-based financial assistance.
I understand the point you are trying to get across, and am not commenting on it, simply trying to clear up a commonly-held misconception.
That sounds more like something that would happen in the arcade, rather than with a home system.
Just keep pumping in those quarters!
Then again, I once blew out the computer so bad with cheat-code "fire" in NBA Jam that my SNES locked up. The score was something like 212-36, with seconds remaining in the 4th.
So, if I want to harass my competitors, I can release spyware with their ads on it or pay for spyware distribution in their name? This would subject them to needless prosecution and distraction?
The transmitters can easily be traced. It is much harder to trace the source of the ads themselves. For civil suits, the "preponderance of evidence" might be a pretty weak standard because there is not much to go on to discredit the prosecution. Of course IANAL...
I would imagine that you would run into huge issues with copyright infringement, "truth in advertising," and so much more.
And, like yourself, I ANAL.
Exactly. That most parents ignore the ratings doesn't correlate to most parents divorcing themselves from being involved in choosing what their children play. Believe it or not, a little violence or even a little sex is not going to fuck a kid up and most parents know this.
The issue really isn't how fscked up a little kid is going to get. The issue is that the parents of the kids that do get fsked up, that think every game on the shelf or with a TV commercial is appropriate for their little Johnnie to play, and then move to sue the video game maker because they couldn't be bothered to do a scintilla of research into their child's entertainment.
Consumer protection doesn't equal the right to be brain dead, as much as the commercials want you to be.
How many games are sold strictly on the strength of a SAG member's likeness being in it? I can't think of a title (unless we count John Madden, et. al.).
And the complexity of the "pick up and play" games continues to get bigger and bigger. About the only ones that seem to have found the perfect balance are the sports games (American Football in particular), and yet as the years go by, they add the off-season, importing players from the college versions of the game of the same brand, off-field incidents, dynasty modes. And yet, a player can ignore all that, hit "quick play" and have a game set up in seconds.
Racing games add fine tuning to the vehicles and legacy modes, and yet still one can pick up the "quick race."
There are more examples. The GTA series is another great example, IMHO.
It sounds like a cost-benefit comparison. The total of lawsuits that the card holders will file for exposing them to fraudulant use must be less than the $400M being reported here (or whatever the splits may be across the card networks).
Any why exactly would Fox give Turner Broacasting any credit for reviving their series?
I have a guy here at the office that, for whatever reason, has a "winmail.dat" file attached to every e-mail he sends.
Innoculous enough, as it never gets picked up on my virus scanner. Nonetheless, sometimes it's not just the user.
Relying on the contents of someone's sent folder has got to drastically reduce the number of people for the virus to spread to. How many causal users, who would fall for all the dupes that so many have already metioned, do you think actually clear out the sent items folder of OE on a anywhere near regular basis?